People from Wimborne Minster

English guitarist, composer and record producer

Scottish singer-songwriter, folk-rock musician

British diplomat, poet (1664-1721)

Leoba, (also Lioba (of Tauberbischofsheim) and Leofgyth) (c. 710 – 28 September 782) was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine nun and is recognized as a saint. In 746 she and her companions left Wimborne Minster in Dorset to join her kinsman Boniface in his mission to the German people. Leoba was a learned woman and involved in the foundation of Benedictine nunneries in Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt. She had a leading role in evangelizing the area. Leoba was acclaimed for many miracles: saving a village from fire; saving a town from a terrible storm; protecting the reputation of the nuns in her convent; and

suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders, cricketer, barrister and schoolteacher (1857-1888)

Scottish nobleman and Conservative politician (1906-1994)

British actor and film director (1886-1953)

British Army general

Benedictine abbess and saint

British lawyer and judge who served as the Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements (1863-1937)